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Subject: Re: [geda-user] A lesson from gnet-makefile
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On Oct 13, 2015, at 8:01 PM, Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via =
geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>=20
> You assume I am going to be like a bull in a china cabinet.

No, I assume that you don=92t know what might break the tools. I am =
confident in this, because I don=92t know of anybody who uses the full =
breadth of geda-gaf. So nobody really knows what might break them.

> I
> deliberately declined to have direct commit privileges. If my code is
> going to the mainline it will I expect have to get a review. Given how
> open we are to other peoples ideas here getting past that will ensure
> a level of quality no lower than any previous work.
>=20
> For my contributions I will be glad to write tests of them. We should
> have a larger regression testing framework though.
>=20
>> Despite Peter Brett=92s great work, we simply don=92t have the tests =
necessary to insure that changes to the core don=92t affect somebody=92s =
flow.
>=20
> It depends on how people choose to use what I want to add. It simply
> being there is not going to break flows.

In the core, it might. Features interact. But a plug-in that isn=92t =
plugged in is perfectly safe.

> Everywhere the original flat model exists people should have the
> option of the new one. The key word being *option*. I am not about to
> try to remove the old s_conn stuff just build something else next to
> it.

Why can=92t you do this in Scheme? Or in Python with Xorn?

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
jpd AT noqsi DOT com



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